Personal data
- Name
- Balázs Tukora
- Address
- Pécs, Hungary
- Date of birth
- 20th century
- E-mail (at work)
- uh.etp.kim@arokut.szalab
- E-mail (at home)
- moc.liamg@arokut.szalab
Education
- Dates
- 2006-2009
- Organization
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
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- School of PhD studies, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Research area
- Material removal simulation and cutting force prediction of multi-axis machining processes on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs)
- Academic degree
- PhD, obtained in 2012
- Dates
- 1991-1996
- Organization
- Technical University of Budapest (now Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Hungary
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
- Field of Study
- Digital systems
- Certificate
- University degree in electrical engineering
Practice
- Dates
- 1998-
- Employer
- University of Pécs, Hungary
- Department
- Pollack Mihály Technical Faculty, Department of Information Technology
- Position
- Assistant professor
- Teaching areas
- Digital systems
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- Robotics
- Workshops and tutoring activity
- Robot programming (Mitsubishi RV-2AJ industrial robot, FESTO MPS, Parallax autonomous robots)
- Mobile device programming (J2ME)
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- 3D modelling techniques ( Maya, 3D Studio Max, Catia)
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- Computer graphics (DirectX 10, Mobile 3D (JSR 184))
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- One of the organizers of the Scientific Society of Students at the faculty
- Dates
- 8.2013-1.2015
- Employer
- Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching bei München, Germany
- Department
- Zentrum für Virtuelle Realität und Visualisierung (V2C)
- Position
- Researcher
- Research area
- Visualization in comparative genomics (Mr. SymBioMath project)
- Dates
- Spring semester, 1999
- Employer
- Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt-Aschaffenburg, Germany
- Position
- "Erasmus" scholarship holder
- Activities
- Leading web programming workshops
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- Web programming
- Dates
- 1996-1998
- Employer
- Several smaller and greater companies
- Position
- Member of the IT crowd
Projects
Research and development
- 2012, 2015-
- MachSim_API and MachSim_Standalone
- Breaking news
- Simulation of material removal by tools with complex geometry besides milling and turning in version 1.7.1
- MachSim_API
- MachSim_API is an application programming interface (API) that provides software components to easily implement simulation and visualization of material removal processes in CAM programs.
The heart of MachSim_API is a simulation and graphics engine that applies highly parallelized algorithms executed on one or more available GPUs.
It has server-client architecture: The simulation runs on a remote or local server, utilizing the power of high-performance GPUs, while a local GPU is charged with the displaying.
MachSim_API is multi-platform, written in C++, using OpenCL and OpenGL functions.
- MachSim_Standalone
- MachSim_Standalone is an application that exploits the power of MachSim_API.
It lets you quickly and easily display your own machining processes.
My aim is to create an easy-to-use machining simulation platform for low-budget or freeware CAM programs and hobby or academic manufacturing projects.
- Partners
- MachSim_API and MachSim_Standalone are being developed to work with eCam, a 2D CAD/CAM designer for simple machining operations.
- Costs
- MachSim_Standalone is free until it’s not used for financial gain.
It must not be started from commercial computer programs in order to present their results to their users.
It must not be applied for producing any commercial product, neither during the design, nor in the process planning or manufacturing stages.
It is also prohibited to use this application in order to create deliverables, reports or presentations in funded projects.
- Download
- Download MachSim_Standalone with documentation
- Feedback
- If you have any questions, suggestions, remarks regarding the API or the standalone version, feel free to contact me!
- 2013-
- Visualization of comparative genomic data
- Details
- In the scope of the Mr. SymBioMath project an application is being developed
in order to display the results of multiple genome comparison. A novel visualization technique has been created that combines three
traditional representations of comparative genomic data in a single three-dimensional structure. In this way it facilitates the revealing and
understanding of the deeper relations among the sequences.
- Picture and video
- 2012
- Simulation of painting in robotic environment
- Details
- An OpenGL based graphics library has been created to order, to simulate painting with spraygun in robotic environment.
It handles simultaneous painting with two or more sprayguns with different colors, partly covered surfaces and masks.
The painted object can be exported with various texture resolutions.
- Picture and video
- 2011, 2014
- Seeds of information
- Details
- At this work a mathematical algorithm has been developed for reproducing a type of supervised, active learning of artificial entities.
It has turned out that these learning processes can take shape even in the inanimate nature;
if we look around, we can witness this kind of spontaneous birth of information in our environment.
The question is now open: what is the highest level of complexity which could grow from these seeds of information?
- Example
- Below you can start a video in which I show how we can teach a robot to go round obstacles by means of an artificial universe as its brain.
Sounds interesting, isn't it? (Sorry for my bad English pronunciation in the video.:-)
- Picture and video
- More info and apps
- In the first issue of Intergalactical Journal of Human Technology and Science
- 2010-2012
- Cutting force estimation during machining processes
- Details
- This research work is the continuation of the GPGPU-based machining simulation project. The visualization of the machining process is amplified with cutting force estimation.
- 2008-2012
- Machining simulations on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs)
- Details
- The aim of the project is developing material removal simulations which are completely processed by GPGPUs, the new generation graphics hardware.
The advances are the highly parallel processing and the speed-increasing effect of the fully on-board execution.
- Pictures and videos
- 2008
- Development of new voucher validating and accounting device for the Hungarian Post Company
- Status
- Project team member
- Activity
- Hardware and software development for PIC microcontroller platform
- 2007
- "2ksi" search engine supplement
- Details
- "2ksi" is a special search engine supplement, which tightens the results of Google: it highlights only those web sites in which the searched words are in the same document session (passage,table,list etc.).
Ideal for searching a given conference, as only the related conference titles-places-dates are displayed.
- State of project
- Finished, obsolete.
- Picture
- 2005
- EZPhone dialer
- Description
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A Java program for mobile phones for accessing the EZPhone pre-paid phone card service even more easier.
- 2005
- Truck Depot
- Description
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"Truck Depot" is a unique game for mobile phones, in which a camion must be driven into a narrow truck depot for picking up goods and leaving in a short time. "Perfect, all my friends became addicted to play..." wrote one of the 200 thousand gamers who have downloaded it.
- Free download
- GetJar.com
- Picture
- 2002
- Soccer Strategy Game
- Description
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The Soccer Strategy Game is a funny little program, with which two gamers can play soccer on the network.
It's called a strategy game, because the match goes on slower than real-time, while all the 11 players must be controlled simultaneously. They have limited intelligency, so they can be guided to do complex acts. It's like being a trainer and shouting from the side of the field to the players what to do.
- State of project
- Finished long time ago, obsolate.
Artistic
- 2009
- Robot installation for the presentation of "Croatian pilgrim church"
- Locations
- "ZeitZug/TimeTrain" exhibition, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany
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- "Keine fixpunkte im raum" exhibition, Sindelfingen Stadt Galerie, Germany
- Description
- The robot installation is an exciting combination of art and technology. An industrial robot arm, equipped with a dome camera, is shooting the maquette of "Croatian Pilgrim Church", designed and completed by prof. Zoltán Bachmann et. al. years ago for protesting against the war in Yugoslavia.
- Picture and video
- 2008-2009
- Technical support for art exhibitions
- Locations
- "ZeitZug/TimeTrain" exhibition, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany
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- "Keine fixpunkte im raum" exhibition, Sindelfingen Stadt Galerie, Germany
- Activity
- Software development for multi-projector video installation
- Picture
- Location
- "Omaggio ad Amerigo Tot" exhibition, Pécs, Hungary
- Activity
- Creation of stop-motion video ducumentation
- 2005
- Virtual Sculpture Project
- Description
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The "Virtual Sculpture Project" appeared at the Right:Here:Now 2005 open-air sculpture exhibition. The virtual sculpture can't be seen with the unaided eye. You can see only a figure painted on the pavement. But if you take out your mobile phone, download a special JAVA application onto it, and turn the built-in camera of the phone to the figure, a sculpture appears on the display, as if it was an organic part of the surroundings.
- Offical site
- Closed, but the app can be found on the internet; it still works on some models.
- State of project
- Quite obsolate. Ready for renewal.
- Picture and video
- 2004
- Begging Slot Machine
- Description
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The "Begging Slot Machine" was one of the exhibited works at the Right:Here:Now sculpture exhibition in 2004, in Budapest. A slot machine with a beggar on the front side, not with a shining cola bottle, and from which you won't get anything but a "thank you" for your money.
The sculpture was placed for six weeks on a well-frequented square of Budapest in the fall of 2004.
- Picture
- 2002
- "Zsákbamacska hadművelet" - novel for the young (no English title)
- Description
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"Zsákbamacska hadművelet " is a novel for the young, written by me. Conspiracy, car pursuit, humour, adventure - all in it!
- State of project
- Still available in the Hungarian book stores. Not in the movies yet.
- 1999-2004
- "Xatza" - short novel
- Description
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Xatza is the title of my first and many times updated short novel. Not a sci-fi, but mainly happens in the virtual reality. An early AR project.
- Download
- xatza.pdf (in Hungarian)
Design
- 2013
- Linkable balloons
- Description
- I have created a special balloon mold with which such latex balloons can be manufactured using the traditional dipping technology that
we can tie together on all sides.
In this way one- or two-layered walls, or even arbitrary 3D shapes can be easily built from balloons:
mosaics, flags, texts, or 3D objects, made of balloons, can be let fly or use indoor for decoration.
- Pictures
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- 2007
- Maestro Limpio one-dosage sample applicator
- Nature
- Material for the "Re-invent" design competition of DesignBoom
- Pictures
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- 2007
- "Light at right" - LED-lamp with wi-fi controllable light pattern
- Nature
- Material for the "Bright LED" design competition of DesignBoom
- Pictures
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- 2007
- Wall-mountable tripod lamp
- Nature
- Material for the "Bright LED" design competition of DesignBoom
- Pictures
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- 2007
- Wooden lamp set
- Nature
- Designed and made for home after I had not found suitable ones in the shops
- Pictures
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- 2006
- Mobile toilet with flexible exterior
- Description
- Scheme of a mobile toilet whose outer side can be adapted to the surroundings
- Pictures
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- 2005
- Swiss army knife-style wooden spoon holder
- Description
- Just a funny wooden spoon holder
- Picture
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Other
- 2011
- Intergalactical Journal of Human Technology and Science
- Description
- This electronical journal has been established to provide up-to-date information for all forms of intelligence in the universe about the current state of human knowledge in the areas of technology and science.
- Web site
- tukora.com/intergalactical
- Logo
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- 2004-
- Camblog
- Description
- Camblog is the abbreviation of blogs which consist of pictures, not text. For what else could we use our mobile phone with a limited-quality camera, than constructing a blog from the pictures we have taken on the road?
- Web site
- camblog.blog.hu
- Sample picture
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- 1997
- Once upon a time
- Description
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The very first home page of mine is now a historic document. A triumph of frame-style and animated gif images. It is worth checking otherwise, among others the sculpture entitled "The Cobblestone is the Weapon of Proletars", and an animated tulip made on the basis of authentic hungarian folk representation can be seen there.
- Web site
- My first home page
- Picture
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Publications
Books
- 2012
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B. Tukora. Machining Simulation and Cutting Force Prediction with GPGPU: Parallel Computations in the Mechanical Engineering
- Publisher
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- ISBN
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978-3-659-23541-2
- Info
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This book contains the reprint of my PhD thesis with some minor changes and is published in order to make the text available for everyone who is interested in the subject.
In scientific papers please cite the thesis instead.
Thesis
- 2012
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B. Tukora. Material removal simulation and cutting force prediction of multi-axis machining processes on general-purpose graphics processing units, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Articles
- 2014
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B. Tukora, C. Anthes, P. Heinzleiter, D. Kranzlmüller. Large-scale dynamic visualization of multiple comparative genomic data, Proceedings of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVIs ’14), 2014
- 2014
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P. Heinzleiter, C. Anthes, B. Tukora. Project Mr. Symbiomath, INNOVATIVES SUPERCOMPUTING IN DEUTSCHLAND 12:(1), 2014, pp. 80-84.
- 2012
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Multi-dexel based material removal simulation and cutting force prediction with the use of general-purpose graphics processing units, ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE 43, 2012, pp. 65-70.
- 2011
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Real-time determination of cutting force coefficients without cutting geometry restriction, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MACHINE TOOLS AND MANUFACTURE 51, 2011, pp. 871-879.
- 2011
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Real-time Cutting Force Prediction and Cutting Force Coefficient Determination during Machining Processes. Advanced Materials Research: Modelling of Machining Operations, 2011, pp. 85-92.
- 2011
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Cutting force prediction with adaptive method in the course of milling processes. Gyártásautomatizálás Konferencia, előadáskötet, 2011, pp. 89-92.
- 2010
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. GPGPU-based Material Removal Simulation and Cutting Force Estimation. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, 2010, pp. 1-14.
- 2010
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Az új generációs grafikus hardverek bevonása a megmunkálás-szimulációs eljárásokba. GÉP LXI:(4), 2010, pp. 35-40.
- 2010
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. LDNI alapú söpört térfogat generálása anyageltávolítás jellegű gépészeti szimulációhoz. V. Magyar Számítógépes Grafika és Geometria Konferencia, előadáskötet, Budapest, 2010, pp. 193-197.
- 2009
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Fully GPU-based volume representation and material removal simulation of free-form objects. Innovative Developments in Design and Manufacturing: Advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping, 2009, pp. 609-614.
- 2008
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. High performance computing on graphics processing units. POLLACK PERIODICA, 2008, 3(2): 27-34
- 2008
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B. Tukora, T. Szalay. Manufacturing simulation in the light of the recent GPU architectures. Proceedings of Gépészet Konferencia (electronical issue), 2008, C20
- 2006
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B. Tukora. Virtual Sculpture Project. POLLACK PERIODICA, 2006, 1(2): 99-106
- 2006
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B. Tukora. Mobile 3D Visualization. Proceedings of 4th Slovakian-Hungarian Joint Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence, 2006, pp. 177-186
- 2005
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Tukora B. A mobiltelefon, mint vizualizációs eszköz. (The mobile phone as a visualizing device) TÉRINFORMATIKA, 2005/6
- 2005
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Tukora B. A Mobile 3D technológia kihasználása a térbeli tájékozódásban. (Utilizing the mobile 3D technology in spatial orientation) Acta Agraria Kaposváriensis, 2005
Lecture notes
- 2004
- "Robotok az iparban" (Robots in the industry)
- Status
- Editor
- Description
- Multimedia tutorial on the base of the help files of "Festo Cosimir Educational" robot programming software
- 2003
- "Robotok irányítása" (Robot controlling)
- Contents
- Mathematical backgrounds of robotics, kinematical and dynamical model of robots, robot controlling methods, robot programming
- Source
- robotok_iranyitasa.pdf
- 2003
- "Digitális technika" (Digital techniques)
- Contents
- Basics of digital systems from Boolean algebra to microcontrollers
- Source
- digitalis_technika.pdf
- 2000
- "Jelek és rendszerek" (Signals and systems)
- Contents
- Basic controlling and signal processing with LabView
